What does victory look like for a Christian?

I'll give one hint.

When we understand how tough it's going to be, we know the victory is worthwhile.

Welcome to the She Proves Faithful Podcast, episode number 196,

truth and encouragement to live gospel center lives every day. I'm your host,

Lauren Lushak. Hi, everyone, welcome to the podcast. I'm so glad you're here. Thank you for letting me be

part of your day. It's always a pleasure. And we're going to talk about victory today and being

victorious as a Christian. And sometimes,

you know, when you hear the word victorious and Christian together, you might think a little

prosperity coming your way, a little prosperity gospel, just name it and claim it. You're about to be

blessed. Well, we are going to be blessed, but in a way that maybe we don't want to be blessed.

I'm excited.

But first, let's jump into a life hack.

We put a bird feeder on our back deck, and it's been really fun to see all the birds come.

And with my kids, we identify them, and sometimes we name them.

Actually, we really mostly name the squirrels because they have a little bit more

personality personality. The birds, they'll come in, you know, eat a little bit and fly off,

but the squirrels. One literally rolled a little pumpkin down our backyard last week. I mean,

has no shame, right? We were we were face down on the trampoline

and I hear something and here the squirrel is coming down, coming down the way with her pumpkin.

She was just rolling it. She's like, I'm taking this home. I've got to feed the babies. Winter's

coming. We actually named one Tom Cruise at our old house because he would be doing like

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